Example sentences of "[be] [art] certain " in BNC.
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| 1 | There can be no certain answer in law to these problems … |
| 2 | If this is the way things go , there would be a certain art-historical justice in it . |
| 3 | If everybody knows everybody else and they all go to the same parties , then there is bound to be a certain unanimity , if not in their judgements at least in their objects of attention . |
| 4 | This code , which is still adhered to , specifies that roofs must be made of slate , all woodwork must be white , and walls must be built in local stone or rendered white ; it also specifies that houses must be a certain distance apart . |
| 5 | It is a kind of brainwashing , because underneath the ad for the chocolate is another kind of message , saying you must be slim , heterosexual , white ; you have to be a certain class , have money . |
| 6 | The waters from here were reputed to be a certain cure for ‘ the itch ’ , as well as curing dogs of the mange . |
| 7 | There needs to be a certain amount of mutual toleration , sensitivity and good humour shown . |
| 8 | When graded tests are used for subjects that are squarely part of the ‘ core curriculum ’ , maths , sciences , languages , and English , there may be a certain reluctance to introduce such a system . |
| 9 | Whereas people once felt that there must be a certain desperation in answering magazine ‘ lonely heart ’ advertisements or in going along to a dating bureau , nowadays these channels are seen as a practical way of finding a new friend or suitable lover . |
| 10 | There must also be a certain transparent suspense about our sexual relations . |
| 11 | As it happens , there 'd be a certain rough justice if I got a wage from it . |
| 12 | There should be a certain lusciousness about the style imparted to a blend by top quality Pinot Noir grapes , although this can be marred by an earthy taste if the vines are grown in a less than favourable site . |
| 13 | Now would seem to be a good time to buy PCs , but there could well be a certain amount of hassle before your new wonder computer is up and running properly . |
| 14 | A change of residence might be welcome , but there will be a certain amount of stress and some nail-biting moments attached to it . |
| 15 | It is nigh on impossible to get the mirror and glass completely clean , so you will have to make a slight compromise by accepting that there will always be a certain amount of dust caught between the two layers of glass , due to static electricity . |
| 16 | In his influential Le Même et l'autre Vincent Descombes has described the entire history of twentieth-century philosophy in France as a succession of moves which attempt to get out of this Hegelian dialectic : the recent phenomenon of poststructuralism is part of a long philosophical story and distinguished only by what appears to be a certain success , or at least an avoidance of failure to the extent that it has at least managed to keep the game with Hegel in play . |
| 17 | There may be a certain exaggeration in the statement that Napoleon had offered a reward for the taking of ‘ the English incendiary ‘ Kvinn or Quin ’ who had been responsible for the burning of three French battleships in the Gulf of Villefranche last year ’ but the sixteen year-old 's behaviour while in prison in Toulon is entirely in keeping with what we know about him : |
| 18 | When Eliot heard that Wyndham Lewis had been travelling around North Africa in a thick English suit , he remarked , " Lewis was always a heavily dressed man " ; and of a lady who had acquired too many petrol coupons during the first year of the war , he said , " There is always bound to be a certain element of iniquity in these matters " . |
| 19 | There is bound to be a certain tension between employer and employee over wages and conditions . |
| 20 | We can say , though , that with the at least partial collapse of the modernist perspective , there appears to be a certain potency in the post-modernist position , which takes the dominant system as given and proposes as method of critique the fragment : subversion takes the form of ‘ guerrilla activity ’ which exploits fissures and forgotten spaces within the hegemonic structure . |
| 21 | There seems to be a certain convention that governs what goes on . |
| 22 | ‘ She means there can be a certain quality to the rotten , ’ Edward said . |
| 23 | I had never been as stubborn or single-minded about anything else , or as insistent that things had to be a certain way . |
| 24 | It has to be a certain size it has be flying |
| 25 | Well then he started at , in a factory there at with er more modern machines , but the factory was too cold , a factory has to be a certain heat to work the lace machines properly . |
| 26 | Now there would be a certain logic in this incorporation , for , if we were to have a Bill of Rights enforced in Britain , then in a situation in which we have ratified the European Convention it would be difficult for us to bypass these rights and draw up a completely new set . |
| 27 | There has to be a certain brittleness and poor design to begin with . |
| 28 | There must be a certain minimum amount of uncertainty , or quantum fluctuations , in the value of the field . |
| 29 | To which he uttered the classic comment , in the more than usually low drawl he employed for such deliverances : ‘ There 's always bound … to be a certain amount of iniquity … in these matters ’ . |
| 30 | There does seem to be a certain amount of evidence that men and women have different styles of speech in the English language . |